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Catherine Murphy

MODEST ANNE HARRIS

Date: March 8, 2023 - Affairs of the Nation

THE HEROISM attributed to TD Catherine Murphy by Anne Harris in the Irish Times this week was a study in selfless endeavour untainted by any egotism or self-interest by the writer. So eager was Harris to bathe Murphy in adulation for her critique of Denis O’Brien that – in reference to the allegations made about… Read more »

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Brendan Mullin

BRENDAN MULLIN SCORES

Date: March 8, 2023 - Affairs of the Nation

INTERESTING TO see a judgment for the sum of €163,000 being registered against a property development company by one Brendan Mullin – former Ireland and Lions star outside centre. The last year has been a tricky one for Mullin, who was capped 55 times for his country before moving into the financial services sector, as… Read more »

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Holly Cairns

SOC DEMS LEADER TO LOSE SEAT?

Date: March 8, 2023 - Last Refuge

THE BIG bounce that new Social Democrats leader Holly Cairns gave the party – up five points to 9% – says something about the way in which the two mesdames of Irish politics, Róisín Shortall and Catherine Murphy, may have been holding back the party. In fact, back in 2020 the two women had promised… Read more »

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Rachel West

ARTS COUNCIL EXIT

Date: March 8, 2023 - Behind the Scenes

THERE WERE some significant developments in the Arts Council last month, including the sudden exit of council officer Rachel West, probably best known for her stint as head of theatre on 70 Merrion Square. While her departure is not linked to any wider staff problems in the council, it comes at a time when the… Read more »

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Prince Khaled bin Sultan al-Saud

PRINCE KHALED’S IRISH JET

Date: March 8, 2023 - Affairs of the Nation

GOLDHAWK WAS interested to see that a colourful Saudi prince, Khaled, who owns the most expensive house in the UK, is currently embroiled in litigation with a company registered in Dublin. Prince Khaled bin Sultan al-Saud is a beneficial owner of a mansion on four acres of Regent’s Park called The Holme, which he picked… Read more »

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Kiernan Cochrane Lauren Whelan

LAUREN WHELAN’S MANAGERS

Date: March 8, 2023 - High Society

RTÉ WAS undoubtedly hoping to attract some of TikTok star Lauren Whelan’s 1.6 million followers when it posted her off to Donegal to acquire the cúpla focal with Amanda Brunker, Des Cahill, Fred Cooke and Oisín Mullin. This was good news for the influencer’s management team, Sarah Kiernan and Conor Cochrane. The eclectic quintet are… Read more »

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Irish Far-Right Gemma O'Doherty

TRICOLOURS AND THE FAR RIGHT

Date: March 8, 2023 - Affairs of the Nation

SOME OF the boneheads running the Irish far-right scene have stumbled on the contradictions of cosying up to right-wing extremists and criminals from Blighty such as Tommy Robinson – real name, Stephen Yaxley-Lennon. The self-professed loyalist has supported British paratroopers involved in Bloody Sunday and has served prison sentences for various offences including stalking, fraud… Read more »

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VOL. 41 NO. 05

Date: March 8, 2023 -

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CONSULATE’S OSCAR PERFORMANCE

Date: March 8, 2023 - Affairs of the Nation

THERE IS one possible result at Sunday’s Oscars that may not be top of the wish list for film funding agency Screen Ireland. While the media coverage has focused on The Banshees of Inisherin and An Cailín Ciúin, there has been relatively scant regard afforded to the production nominated in the Oscar’s best short film… Read more »

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Phil Hogan UCD IRTA DIGI Katy Brown Rory Godson Pallonji Mistry Shark Hanlon Frances Ruane Taste of Dublin Listowel Writers’ Week Paddy Curran Harvey Norman Anton Savage Paul Hourican Enda O’Coineen PfP Red C Poll IFTA Ben Gilroy Luke Comer Sue Spence Fingleton Aubrey McCarthy Matt Cooper Parker Green Danny McConnell Gayle Killilea Maura Derivan Ed Honohan INS Arts Council EDAF Emuse Rosslare Golf Club Mairead Casey Colm O’Rourke Stephen Connolly Peter Aiken John Malone Tom Barry Anthony Halpin Ian Kehoe Kevin Bakhurst Geraldine O’Leary Dennis Horgan RUSI Gareth McAllister Ryevale House Joe Macken RUC Omagh Patrick Connolly Paddy Cosgrave The Ditch Newstalk Fake Tan Fred Logue Ian Paisley Sean O’Riordan Margaret Sweeney Jay Bourke Ellie Kisyombe Francesca McDonagh Ted Cunningham National Space Centre An Irish Goodbye Oscar Robert Quirke Ciara Kelly Executive Women Gathering Doug Taylor Florian Haufe Robbie Henshaw Bill Shipsey Breaking the Silence L’Ecrivain Ronan McNally National Lottery Michael Roche Energy Action Balls.ie Newspapers VAT Abbey Theatre Patricia Madden Irish Banking Culture Board Randox Aoife Gallagher Book Dalai Lama Trinity Trevor White RTÉ Chairperson Shane Houlihan Noel Smyth IKC Bob Geldof Landlord Ireland Neutrality Ukraine

ROBERT QUIRKE’S MALTESE MOOLAH

Date: March 8, 2023 - Affairs of the Nation

THE Comptroller and Auditor General’s scathing report into the farce surrounding HSE spending on ventilators in the early days of the Covid pandemic reminded Goldhawk of his old pal, Robert Quirke, who is currently happily ensconced in Malta. The Westmeath native owns a number of firms but surely the most interesting is Roqu Media International… Read more »

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LETTERS TO THE EDITOR

Date: March 8, 2023 - Letters to the Editor

WAR IN UKRAINE Dear Editor, I want to say that the article you did on the war in Ukraine was excellent. There are no media outlets saying it as it is. This ban on talking about the war in any other terms than the current narrative is bordering on fascism. Dare I say the word…. Read more »

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Kerry Fires Eamon Ryan

BURNING ISSUE

Date: March 8, 2023 - Affairs of the Nation

If an outsider were to land in rural Ireland for the first time in recent weeks, what would be their enduring impression of the ‘emerald isle’? Most likely, they would conclude that many Irish people hate nature and are actively trying to wipe out what little remains of our indigenous flora and fauna. From late… Read more »

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Martin McGuinness

SWIFT JUSTICE?

Date: March 8, 2023 - Hush Hush

FOLLOWING THE shooting of detective chief inspector John Caldwell at Omagh last month, PSNI chief constable Simon Byrne was quite bullish in his claims of how the PSNI would bring the killers to “swift justice”. For some years now the mantra in media, north and south, is that dissident IRA groups have been thoroughly infiltrated… Read more »

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Una Mullally

THE HOT AIR BRIGADE

Date: March 8, 2023 - The Hot Air Brigade

When Cairns’ name is mentioned, the first things I always hear – from people of all political affiliations – are almost effusively positive sentiments; “I love her!”, “she’s so great!”, “what a boss!”. These feelings she evokes are significant. Una Mullally on Holly Cairns, Irish Times Holly for Taoiseach. It’s not as crazy as you… Read more »

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Rishi Sunak

BIG FLY IN THE WINDSOR SOUP

Date: March 8, 2023 - Northwind

AS FAR as the British are concerned, it’s a done deal. The choreography worked perfectly. EU Commission president Ursula von der Leyen came to Windsor rather than prime minister Rishi Sunak having to go to Brussels. One wag said if they’d called the Northern Ireland Protocol the ‘Winston Churchill Protocol’ in 2020 there’d never have… Read more »

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Brigadier General Philip Brennan

GREEN PARTY DROPS TRIPLE LOCK

Date: March 8, 2023 - Last Refuge

THE FIANNA FÁIL leader and Tánaiste, Micheál Martin, will be pleased with Cabinet colleague Eamon Ryan, who recently persuaded his now-domesticated Green Party members to adapt to modern realities – ie the need to clear the decks for future wars with anti-western forces that threaten EU interests in particular parts of the globe. In turn,… Read more »

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MICHEÁL MARTIN’S NUCLEAR RECORD

Date: March 8, 2023 - Last Refuge

THE 2023 Conference on Disarmament in Geneva last month heard Tánaiste and foreign affairs minister Micheál Martin denounce Russia for its recent pronouncements on nuclear weapons. Days earlier Martin boasted: “Our efforts to secure international peace at both the official and political levels were recognised when Ireland, as the long-standing champion of nuclear non-proliferation, was… Read more »

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Sinn Féin Russia Mary Lou McDonald

SINN FÉIN FLEES TO CENTRE

Date: March 8, 2023 - Last Refuge

A RECENT statement by left-wing TDs and senators, excluding Sinn Féin, in the Irish Times made the ever so provocative suggestion that Ireland should use its neutral status to call for a ceasefire and peace negotiations between Russia and Ukraine. The reaction from those who, in the first place, do not accept that Ireland’s neutrality… Read more »

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Irish Times Palestine Shireen Abu Akleh

‘IRISH TIMES’ CENSORSHIP

Date: March 8, 2023 - Fit to Print?

THE RECENT statement to the Irish Times from various TDs and senators proposing a peace dialogue in Ukraine was responded to by a sack full of letters, which were overwhelmingly hostile. The paper of reference made sure to clear the decks for this most important polemic and published reams of war-like correspondence demanding there be… Read more »

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EILIS O’HANLON’S ‘INTERNALISED LOATHING’

Date: March 8, 2023 - Fit to Print?

THE JOINT committee on children, equality, disability, integration and youth held a discussion on “integration and refugee issues” in the Dáil last month, which attracted the malign attention of some right-wing social media warriors, as well as Eilis O’Hanlon. The seven TDs and five senators in attendance were joined by representatives from Le Chéile; Kurshiv… Read more »

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Dana

DANA V VIRGIN MEDIA

Date: March 8, 2023 - Fit to Print?

ONE OF the last defamation actions in the raft of such cases undertaken by Dana following the acquittal on all charges of child abuse against her brother, John Brown, in 2014 is now being sorted in front of a High Court judge. When reference was made to the charges against Brown in a TV3 programme… Read more »

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Writing the Earth John Fitzgerald

‘GOUGING’ THE EARTH

Date: March 8, 2023 - Fowl Emissions

‘Writing the Earth’ is the catchy title of a programme starting this week at the Irish Writers’ Centre in Dublin, which brings writers and scientists together to explore climate and geoscience. ‘Gouging the Earth’ might have been a more apt title in light of the sponsor and collaborator for this event. The Irish Centre for… Read more »

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BERNARD LOONEY’S CLIMATE FIGHT

Date: March 8, 2023 - Fowl Emissions

The Healy-Raes aren’t the only famous Kerry men with a knack for spouting nonsense on climate. The head of oil giant BP, Bernard Looney, who is originally from Kenmare, warned last week that failing to invest enough in fossil fuels could undermine the shift to green energy. That’s right. As a Bloomberg headline put it:… Read more »

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Bog-Cuttings-Defaul

BOG CUTTINGS

Date: March 8, 2023 - Bog Cuttings

‘NOT A TAXI SERVICE’ AN INTOXICATED Tullamore man who walked into his local Garda station to ask for a lift found himself arrested instead. Speaking to Tullamore District Court, Sergeant James O’Sullivan recounted how on June 5, 2022, the defendant turned up at the Tullamore Garda Station requesting that someone drive him home. Sgt O’Sullivan… Read more »

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JEANNE BAARS’ BELLAIR SALE

Date: March 8, 2023 - High Society

GOLDHAWK NOTES that the sprawling Bellair Estate outside Ballycumber village in Co Offaly has been sold, a year after coming on the market with a juicy €5m price tag. Bellair was acquired many moons ago by Cecil Baars, who died in 2005 having established a substantial dairy farm operation and cheese-making plant on the lands,… Read more »

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Domini Kemp

DOMINI KEMP’S NEW RECIPE

Date: March 8, 2023 - High Society

THE OPENING of a new Rathmines restaurant called Lottie’s on the site of Fiona McHugh’s shuttered Lenehans eatery is the second venture for Domini Kemp’s Valence Hospitality group, where she has been joined by a partner with deep pockets, Brian Montague (see The Phoenix 14/1/22). Not that Domini hasn’t a few bob herself, judging by… Read more »

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Valerie Moran

THE MORANS CROSS THEIR FINGERS

Date: March 8, 2023 - Sport of Kings

WITH CHELTENHAM kicking off next week, all those big-spending owners will again battle it out to bag even the one winner that might justify the eye-watering sums being spent on jumps horses these days. Some have more on the line than others. Punters are accustomed to seeing the likes of Rich Ricci, JP McManus, Michael… Read more »

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Denis Hogan

DENIS HOGAN’S GAMBLE

Date: March 8, 2023 - Sport of Kings

IT IS three years since that controversial race in Dundalk in 2020 when the Denis Hogan-trained stable mates Tony the Gent and Yuften finished first and second in a claiming race. The unusual betting trends associated with that race and the contrasting rides given to each horse sparked an investigation by the Irish Horseracing Regulatory… Read more »

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REUBEN BROTHERS CLOSING IN

Date: March 8, 2023 - Sport of Kings

THE NEWS that UK outfit Arena Racing Company (ARC) is in advanced negotiations to buy Dundalk racecourse could have interesting implications for the landscape of Irish racecourses if the deal goes through. Owned by billionaire brothers Simon and David Reuben, ARC operates 16 turf and all-weather racecourses in the UK including Doncaster, the home of… Read more »

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Joseph O'Brien

O’BRIEN’S AUSTRALIAN ADVENTURE

Date: March 8, 2023 - Sport of Kings

HAVING PLUNDERED two of Australia’s most iconic races – the Melbourne Cup and the Cox Plate – in recent years, Joseph O’Brien has shipped a strong team down under for the potentially lucrative Autumn Racing Carnival in Sydney. O’Brien’s previous exploits in Australia have proved most rewarding (far more so than his illustrious father, Aidan… Read more »

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The Dry

THE DRY – RTÉ ONE

Date: March 8, 2023 - ReviewsReviews|TVTV

AS THE nepo-baby debate continues online, it’s ironic that RTÉ’s latest comedy-drama, The Dry, arrives courtesy of writer Nancy Harris, scion of one-time Sindo royalty Anne and Eoghan Harris. While a satirical farce about Eoghan’s Twitter antics could potentially be box office, RTÉ viewers have had to settle for The Dry, a middling comedy-drama about… Read more »

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TERRY MCMAHON’S BROADSIDE

Date: March 8, 2023 - Behind the Scenes

IN THE glut of recent Oscars-inspired media coverage of Irish cinema, fans of Goldhawk will be familiar with the absence of references to Irish performers’ battle to get the same standard of contracts as non-Irish actors in productions here (see The Phoenix 10/2/23). Striding into the fray last week, however, came Terry McMahon. The writer… Read more »

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Darragh Lyons

MALIN CORP’S SHARES CONTINUE TO BE UNDERRATED BY MARKET

Date: March 8, 2023 - Moneybags

DARRAGH LYONS has the valuable quality, as far as Malin Corp shareholders are concerned, of being boring. After the rollercoaster ride during Kelly Martin’s reign, which ended six years ago, a safe pair of hands is just what the doctor ordered. Moreover, Lyons has nursed Malin’s portfolio with no little skill and intelligence – something… Read more »

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Smurfit Kappa Group Tony Smurfit

SMURFIT KAPPA’S CRAZY PROFITS COMING UNDER PRESSURE

Date: March 8, 2023 - Moneybags

OVER THREE years after Smurfit Kappa Group (SKG) copped a huge fine for its role in a price-fixing cartel in the cardboard box market in Italy, it seems clear that the Irish company and other major European operators have absolutely no need of any dodgy agreements to rake in the cash. Indeed, the levels of… Read more »

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Brian Ormond

BRIAN ORMOND’S MISSTEP

Date: March 8, 2023 - The Hot Water Brigade

BARELY A year after benefiting from oodles of free advertising in the Irish media, courtesy of gushing articles about Brian Ormond’s move into the footwear business, one of the companies behind the Movrs franchise is tripping into liquidation. K Club-based Ormond lives an enviable lifestyle, with a nice pile in the K Club and regular… Read more »

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Irish Pharmacy Union Dermot Twomey

PHARMACISTS’ FINANCIAL HEADACHE

Date: March 8, 2023 - The Hot Water Brigade

IN RECENT weeks Dermot Twomey’s Irish Pharmacy Union (IPU) has been getting its fair share of attention, most notably as a result of the high-profile shortage of many medicines. No doubt IPU president Twomey and the other top brass are hoping that this helps to distract members from the continued haemorrhaging of money at a… Read more »

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